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The Dutch Caribbean are the six island countries and municipalities of the Kingdom of the Netherlands that are located in the Caribbean – Aruba, Curaçao (including the islet of ''Klein Curaçao'', "Little Curaçao"), Sint Maarten (comprising only the southern half of the island of Saint Martin), Bonaire (including the islet of ''Klein Bonaire'', "Little Bonaire"), Sint Eustatius and Saba – regardless of their legal status in Dutch law.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://unitedkingdom.nlembassy.org/passports-visas--consular/visas/visa-for-the-dutch-caribbean.html )〕 The term may sometimes also be used interchangeably with the term Caribbean Netherlands to refer to just three of those islands (Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba) which are special municipalities of the Netherlands proper.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Rijksdienst Carbische Nederland (Rijksdienst Dutch Caribbean) )〕 All of the islands in the Dutch Caribbean were, at some point in their history, part of the constituent country of the Netherlands Antilles and its predecessor, the colony of Curaçao and its dependencies. By contrast, the former Dutch colony of Suriname was not considered to be part of Dutch Caribbean, although it was relatively close by on the continent of South America. ==History== The island of Aruba seceded from the Netherlands Antilles in 1986 to become a separate constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, leaving only five island territories within the Netherlands Antilles. This situation remained until the complete dissolution of the Netherlands Antilles as a unified political entity in 2010, when Curaçao and Sint Maarten became autonomous constituent countries within the Kingdom like Aruba, while Bonaire, Sint Eustatius, and Saba became special municipalities of the Netherlands proper. Before the dissolution, the autonomy of the island areas was specified in the Islands Regulation of the Netherlands Antilles. Currently, there are two main divisions in the Dutch Caribbean: * those islands that have the status of being constituent countries of the Kingdom of the Netherlands * those islands that have the status of being special municipalities of the Netherlands alone, as distinct from the Kingdom in its entirety. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Dutch Caribbean」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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